by J. Caleb Mozzocco & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he Bryan Singer-directed Superman Returns has just opened -- is it too early to start speculating about the next Superman movie? Of course not -- Warner Brothers has already announced a 2009, Singer-

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & The Devil Wears Prada -- A strong, subtle (but not too subtle) and often comic performance by Meryl Streep as a magazine editor from hell almost saves this biting satire on the fashion industry. But a weak, one-dimensional portraya

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & The Break-Up & r & It's a sexy mess when Brooke and Gary break up but refuse to move out of the condo they share. Gary's slovenly buddies, played by Jason Bateman (!) and John Favreau come to his aid while Brooke's ambiguously gay br

by Pat Kennedy & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & ainstream sports have it easy. Most kids have a football, basketball or baseball in their hands from the get-go. If you have the dream to play the game, the path is there: Start in high school, get a sch

by Christina Kelly & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & C & lt;/span & arolyn Lakewold went from playing professional fast-pitch softball to teaching English at the community college level to winemaking, all with the precision of an athlete -- the timing, the nuances and

by Robert Carriker & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & uring five trying days on the Lolo Trail in June 1806, the single-file Lewis and Clark Expedition looked like a solemn procession. Beginning on June 29, however, their progress took on aspects of a t

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & The Break-Up & r & It's a sexy mess when Brooke and Gary break up but refuse to move out of the condo they share. Gary's slovenly buddies, played by Jason Bateman (!) and John Favreau come to his aid while Brooke's ambiguously gay br

by Marty Demarest & r & & r & NFL Head Coach, Rated Everyone, PC, PS2, Xbox & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & here are three important seasons in the year of an NFL coach. It begins during the off-season, in an empty office, where I listen to the team's owner

by Ann M. Colford and Susan Hamilton & r & & r & A Bite of Heaven DESSERTS & r & "This is heaven!" my daughter exclaimed after her first bite. With a pronouncement like that, I had to try a bite myself. Yes, it was rich, creamy, smooth and very satisfying. "It fl

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by Forrest Church & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he racehorse Silky Sullivan was a Western phenom. In the late 1950s, he stopped hearts in every race he ran by spotting his opponents a 30-length lead. Halfway round the track, with the bunched contenders

by Ed Symkus & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & U & lt;/span & ppity clothes hounds who drooled over the designs in Sex and the City are going to get a charge out of the novel-to-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's supposed expose on the Manhattan fashion scene.

by Kevin Taylor & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he rugged eastern side of Idaho's Benewah County, the area around St. Maries and the St. Joe River, has been a reliable flash point where tensions between whites and Indians are more visible than elsewh

by Julianne Couch & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & s a kid, I used to play treasure hunt, all by myself. I'd take a piece of notebook paper and draw an X for my starting point -- the front stoop of my house, or on a dead-end street. Then I'd make a ser

by Ted S. McGregor Jr. & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & I & lt;/span & s it just me, or did it just get really expensive around here? Used to be that Spokane's ace in the hole was its affordability -- in everything from housing to electricity. Not anymore. The nation

by Michael Bowen & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & hey may represent just one guy's opinion, and the regional theater scene may have expanded to more than any one person can take in, but here they are anyway: the 2006 Spokies, honoring the year's best

There was a surprise applause line during a downtown showing of An Inconvenient Truth over the weekend. Professor Al Gore -- surprising how well PowerPoint presentations work as campaign films -- had made t

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & Hoop Hard, Hoop Clean & r & Good sportsmanship appeared to be on display at Hoopfest -- though maybe that's just because one of the Buzz Bin's teams played in the family division this year. (And he -- let's call him "Jer" -- came in sec

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & Linnie's Thai Cuisine -- At a recent performance at the Shop, Portland singer-songwriter Krist Krueger (who plays under the name Southerly) spent much of his between-song gab time extolling the wonders of Linnie's Thai Cuisine. Whe

by Inlander Readers & r & & r & A Capital Idea & r & I love Spokane. Having lived in Connecticut, New York and Chicago, I can attest to the fact that the very strong sense of community and quality of life that we have here is rarely seen in the rest of the countr

by Geroge Howland Jr. & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he internal party changes that began in January with the narrow election victory of Diane Tebelius as state GOP chair became evident to all last month, when the Washington State Republican Party r

by Inlander Staff & r & & r & The Rest of Youth & r & Fall of Snow's album, okay., comes in a sleeve made out of brown sweatpants -- and like those sweatpant shards. okay., is incredibly soft, layering snare and several types of string over singer Stephanie's hush

by Paul K. Haeder & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he process of turning up earth and shaking off soil from the roots of a bulb is as old as human time. From Arctic regions to the American Southwest, from the foothills in Bhutan, to the outback in Aus

by Luke Baumgarten & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & E & lt;/span & nough eulogies to dying venues already, it's breaking our hearts. Everyone (rightly, us included) got all teary over the passing of the B-Side, hailing it the end of an era and the end of good music

Lately, Muncie has the most fertile soil in Indiana for unique and genuine bands to sprout. Among the

On the Yokohama Hooks

by Ed Symkus & r & & r & & lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & T & lt;/span & he biggest surprise about this film's predecessor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, was how surprisingly good it was -- a comedy-laced adventure of major proportions with, literally,